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20100252163 | PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR MOTORCYCLE - A pneumatic tire for motorcycles is provided which can improve traction performance especially during sharp cornering by largely leaning a vehicle, and stability during leaning of a vehicle without diminishing other performances. A pneumatic tire for motorcycles having a tread portion | 10-07-2010 |
20110214792 | PNEUMATIC TIRE FOR MOTORCYCLE - A pneumatic tire for motorcycles is provided which can improve the traction performance especially during sharp cornering by largely leaning a vehicle (motorbike) followed by acceleration, and the stability during leaning of a vehicle in addition to enhancing the steering stability at high speed. | 09-08-2011 |
20120193008 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - There is provided a pneumatic tire having excellent uneven wear resistance performance, low rolling resistance and durability of side portion's appearance. The pneumatic tire comprises a carcass as a framework consisting of at least one carcass ply troidally extending between bead portions embedded with a pair of bead cores and turned around the bead cores from an inner side to an outer side in a tire width direction, a belt comprising at least one inclined belt layer and a tread successively disposed on a radially outer side of a crown portion of the carcass, wherein a ratio BD/BW is in a range between 0.01 and 0.04 in a section of the tire in the width direction in a state where the tire is mounted on an application rim, where BD is radius difference between radius at a central portion and radius at an end portion in the tire width direction of the outermost layer of the inclined belt layer and BW is a width of the outermost layer and CSEh is larger than SWh, where CSEh is a shortest distance from an end of a turn-up portion of the at least one carcass ply to a line drawn in parallel with a tire rotation axis at a bead toe and SWh is a shortest distance between a line drawn in parallel with the tire rotation axis at a maximum width position of the tire and the line drawn in parallel with the tire rotation axis at the bead toe. | 08-02-2012 |
20140138002 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - Provided is a pneumatic tire having at least one carcass layer as a skeleton extending in toroidal shape over a pair of bead portions, at least one belt layer and a tread disposed on an outer side in the radial direction of a crown portion of the carcass. In a tire section in the widthwise direction in state where the tire is assembled to an application rim, ratio BD/BW of radius difference BD between radius at a center portion and radius at an end portion in the widthwise direction of an innermost layer of the belt layer, to width BW of the innermost layer, ranges from 0.01 to 0.04, and ratio TD/TW of radius difference TD between radius at a center portion and radius at an end portion of the tread in the widthwise direction of a tread ground surface, to tread ground-contact width TW, satisfies BD/BW | | 05-22-2014 |
20150266346 | PNEUMATIC TIRE - A pneumatic tire, having a plurality of sipes formed in land portions of a tread thereof so as to each extend in the tire width direction, characterized in that: in a cross section of the land portion orthogonal to the sipe extending direction, provided that an imaginary sipe main line links two ends in the tire radial direction of each sipe, at least two of the sipes are “inclined sipes” each having the sipe main line inclined with respect to the tire radial direction; each inclined sipe has inner bent portions each protruding with respect to the sipe main line with peaks positioned deeper than 20% of the sipe depth; and the sipe main line(s) of at least one of the inclined sipes are inclined in a direction opposite, with respect to the tire radial direction, to the sipe main line of any of the other inclined sipes. | 09-24-2015 |
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20120096881 | AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - The air-conditioning apparatus includes a coolant circuit configured by sequentially connecting a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an outdoor heat exchanger; a motor that operates a compressor mechanism disposed inside the compressor; an inverter for driving the motor; and a control unit that controls the inverter. The control unit includes a liquefaction detecting unit that detects coolant liquefaction in the compressor; includes a first PWM signal generating unit that generates an inverter control signal for driving the motor; includes a second PWM signal generating unit that generates an inverter control signal for making the motor perform a preheating operation; and includes a switching unit that performs switching in such a way that the first PWM signal generating unit or the second PWM signal generating unit outputs the corresponding inverter control signal to the inverter. | 04-26-2012 |
20130152609 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND A CONTROL METHOD OF THREE-PHASE INVERTER - An adder adds a phase θplus, which is n times a size of 60 degrees, to a phase output from a phase switching unit and outputs the phase as a voltage command phase θ. A voltage generation unit generates voltage command value based on the voltage command phase output by the adder and outputs the command value. A drive-signal generation unit, based on an output from the voltage generation unit generates drive signals corresponding to respective switching elements of an inverter, and outputs respective generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the inverter, and generates a high-frequency AC voltage in the inverter. | 06-20-2013 |
20130180273 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - A selection unit switches between a phase θp and a phase θn different from the phase θp substantially by 180 degrees, and outputs one of them in synchronization with a carrier signal. A voltage-command generation unit generates and outputs three-phase voltage command values Vu*, Vv* and Vw* based on the phase outputted by the selection unit. A PWM-signal generation unit generates three-phase voltage command values Vu*′, Vv*′ and Vw*′ by correcting the three-phase voltage command values Vu*, Vv* and Vw* outputted by the voltage-command generation unit according to a predetermined method, and generates six drive signals corresponding to switching elements of the inverter based on the three-phase voltage command values Vu*′, Vv*′ and Vw*′ and the carrier signal. The PWM-signal generation unit outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the three-phase inverter, to cause the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. | 07-18-2013 |
20130269370 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INVERTER - An object of the present invention is to maintain a heating amount constant when a compressor is heated at the time of shutdown of the compressor, regardless of the influences of production tolerance and environment variations. An inverter control unit causes an inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage having a de-energized section in which a voltage applied from the inverter to a motor is zero between a section in which the voltage is positive and a section in which the voltage is negative. At this time, the inverter control unit detects a value of a current flowing to the inverter in a detection section residing from immediately before a start of the de-energized section to immediately after an end of the de-energized section, and causes the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage adjusted according to the detected current value. | 10-17-2013 |
20130291578 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - A voltage-command correction-value computation unit outputs a correction value for correcting a voltage command value according to a bus voltage. A multiplier calculates a voltage command value acquired by correcting the voltage command value based on the correction value. A voltage-command generation unit generates and outputs three-phase voltage command values based on the corrected voltage command value calculated by the multiplier and a phase. A PWM-signal generation unit generates six drive signals corresponding to switching elements of an inverter based on the three-phase voltage command values outputted by the voltage-command generation unit and a carrier signal. The PWM-signal generation unit outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the three-phase inverter, to cause the inerter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. | 11-07-2013 |
20130305760 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, HEAT PUMP SYSTEM, AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THREE-PHASE INVERTER - An object of the present invention is to efficiently heat a refrigerant retained in a compressor. An inverter control unit generates six drive signals corresponding to the respective switching elements of the inverter, and outputs the generated drive signals to the corresponding switching elements of the inverter to cause the inverter to generate a high-frequency AC voltage. Particularly, the inverter control unit generates a drive signal having a switching pattern A for turning on all the three switching elements on a positive voltage side or a negative voltage side of the inverter, and subsequent thereto, generates a drive signal having a switching pattern B for turning on two switching elements of the three switching elements and turning off one switching element thereof. | 11-21-2013 |
20140174118 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND REFRIGERATING MACHINE - A heat pump device that can efficiently feed a high-frequency current to an electric motor and effectively heat a compressor includes a compressor including a compression mechanism configured to compress a refrigerant and a motor configured to drive the compression mechanism, heat exchangers, an inverter configured to apply a voltage to the motor, and an inverter control unit configured to drive the inverter. The inverter control unit includes a stagnation detecting unit configured to determine whether heating of the compressor is necessary and notify the determination result and a high-frequency-alternating-current-voltage generating unit and a PWM-signal generating unit configured to shift to a heating operation mode when the heating is necessary and, in the heating operation mode, generate PWM signals to provide, based on a heating time carrier signal having two or more frequencies, a period in which a reflux current flows. | 06-26-2014 |
20140338379 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AND AIR CONDITIONER, HEAT PUMP WATER HEATER, REFRIGERATOR AND FREEZING MACHINE INCLUDING HEAT PUMP DEVICE - A heat pump device includes an inverter control unit for controlling an inverter. The inverter control unit includes a constraint-energization control unit that, during operation standby of a compressor, determines whether heating to the compressor is necessary, on the basis of a coolant sleeping amount in the compressor, and, when having determined that heating to the compressor is necessary, selects, according to the coolant sleeping amount, any one of direct-current energization for supplying a direct-current voltage to the motor and high-frequency energization for supplying a high-frequency voltage having a frequency higher than a frequency during a normal operation to the motor, so as to output a constraint energization command for carrying out constraint energization of the motor; and a driving-signal generating unit that generates a driving signal on the basis of the constraint energization command. | 11-20-2014 |
20140338380 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - The present invention is a heat pump device that includes a compressor including a compression mechanism and a motor, a heat exchanger, an inverter, and an inverter control unit including a drive-signal generation unit generating a drive signal for the inverter and a heating-operation-mode control unit controlling the drive-signal generation unit when the compressor is heated by applying, to the motor, a high-frequency voltage with which the motor cannot be rotationally driven, wherein the heating-operation-mode control unit includes a magnetic-pole-position estimation unit estimating a magnetic pole position indicating a stop position of a rotor of the motor, and a high-frequency energization unit determining an amplitude and a phase of a voltage command based on an estimation result of the magnetic pole position and a necessary amount of heat, notifies the drive-signal generation unit of determined amplitude and phase, and causes the drive-signal generation unit to generate a drive signal. | 11-20-2014 |
20150028780 | AIR CONDITIONER - An air conditioner includes: an outdoor fan provided in an outdoor unit; a permanent magnet synchronous motor that drives the outdoor fan; an inverter that uses a DC power source as a power source and applies a voltage to the permanent magnet synchronous motor; an inverter control means that controls the output voltage of the inverter; and a shunt resist connected between the DC power source and the inverter. If the outdoor fan is rotating due to an external force while the inverter is stopped, the inverter control means causes the inverter to operate using a brake sequence that brakes the rotation of the outdoor fan, and then causes the inverter to operate using a drive sequence that power-drives the outdoor fan. | 01-29-2015 |
20150089972 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - A heat pump device includes a compressor including a compression mechanism that compresses a refrigerant and a motor that drives the compression mechanism, an inverter that applies a voltage for driving the motor, a converter that applies a voltage to the inverter, an inverter control unit that generates a driving signal for driving the inverter, and a converter control unit that generates a driving signal for driving the converter, wherein the inverter control unit includes a heating operation mode in which a heating operation of the compressor is performed and a normal operation mode in which a refrigerant is compressed by performing a normal operation of the compressor and the converter control unit sets, in the heating operation mode of the inverter control unit, a voltage applied to the inverter on the basis of a voltage command value for the motor. | 04-02-2015 |
20150096320 | HEAT PUMP DEVICE, AIR CONDITIONER, AND FREEZER - A heat pump device includes: a compressor including a compression mechanism compressing a refrigerant and a motor driving the compression mechanism; an inverter unit applying a voltage for driving the motor; an inverter control unit generating a driving signal for driving the inverter unit; and temperature sensors detecting temperatures of the compressor, wherein the inverter control unit includes a normal operation mode in which a refrigerant is compressed by performing a normal operation of the compressor and a heating operation mode in which a heating operation of the compressor is performed by applying, to the motor, a high-frequency voltage, and in the heating operation mode, the inverter control unit determines an amplitude and a phase of a voltage command for generating the high-frequency voltage on a basis of a temperatures detected by the temperature sensors and a necessary amount of heat specified in advance. | 04-09-2015 |
20150377939 | DETERMINING DEVICE, DETERMINING METHOD, AND PROGRAM - A voltage/current verifier computes, for each phase, a phase difference between phase voltage and phase current from the phase of phase voltage and the phase of phase current computed for each phase by a phase acquirer, and determines conformity if all of the computed phase differences are within a preset range. A current/current verifier computes phase differences between phase currents from the phase of phase current computed for each phase by the phase acquirer, and determines conformity if all of the computed phase differences are less than 180°. A reporting device reports that a current transformer is incorrectly placed on a power line unless both the voltage/current verifier and the current/current verifier do not determine conformity. | 12-31-2015 |
20150381062 | POWER CONVERSION APPARATUS AND REFRIGERATION AIR-CONDITIONING APPARATUS - Provided is a power converter for converting electric power between a power source and a load, including: a boosting device including a boost rectifier configured to prevent a backflow of a current from the load side to the power source side, the boosting device being configured to change a voltage of electric power supplied from the power source to a predetermined voltage; a commutation device configured to perform a commutation operation of directing a current flowing through the boosting device to another path; and a controller configured to perform control related to the voltage change of the boosting device and control related to the commutation operation of the commutation device, in which the commutation device is configured to flow, when the commutation device performs the commutation operation, a current generating a voltage causing reverse recovery of the boost rectifier to the commutation device side. | 12-31-2015 |
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20090278362 | CYCLOCONVERTER GENERATOR - In a cycloconverter generator, AC power required by the load is detected and a desired speed of the engine is determined based on the required AC power, operation of an actuator is controlled such that the engine speed becomes equal to the desired engine speed, and the required AC power is generated by turning on switching elements (thyristors) such that a number of the phase signal within one period of frequency of the AC power, becomes equal to a number determined by the desired engine speed, thereby preventing undesirable increase in fuel consumption and noise by operating the engine at a speed corresponding to required AC power and enabling to generate stable AC power even when the engine speed changes abruptly. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279338 | CYCLOCONVERTER GENERATOR - In a cycloconverter generator, there are provided, q number of power circuits that supply rectified DC power of a DC power supply unit as operating power to the p (p>q) number of thyristors, and r (p>r) number of thyristor drive circuits that are connected to the q number of the power circuits and drive the p number of the thyristors, wherein the r number of the thyristors drive circuits are individually used to drive in common ones among the p number of the thyristors whose operation is unaffected even if driven at the same timing such that the number r of the drive circuits is made smaller than the number p of the thyristors, thereby enabling to simplify circuit configuration. | 11-12-2009 |
20090279339 | CYCLOCONVERTER GENERATOR - In a cycloconverter generator equipped with an AC power generator that generates single-phase AC power to be supplied to a load by turning on positive and negative switching elements at variable timing every half-period of a desired AC power frequency based on a phase signal and a DC power generator that generates DC power by turning on the positive switching elements in accordance with a timing determined by desired DC voltage, there is installed with a selection switch that is installed to be operable by an user and produces an output indicative of a result of the user's selection between the AC power and DC power thereby enabling to the user to easily select either one of alternating current and direct current. | 11-12-2009 |
20130049708 | OUTPUT CONTROL DEVICE OF ELECTRIC GENERATOR - A rising temperature of components of an electric generator is restrained without deteriorating the quality of electricity output and the user-friendliness of the electric generator. AVR ( | 02-28-2013 |
20150107134 | SNOW PLOW - A snow plow includes a control unit for controlling a raising/lowering drive mechanism so that an auger housing becomes horizontal, a relative angle detection unit for detecting the angle of the auger housing relative to a travel frame, and a horizontal detection unit for detecting the horizontal state of the auger housing. The control unit stops the raising/lowering drive mechanism when the control unit assess that either a first condition or a second condition is satisfied, the first condition being that the relative angle be zero and the second condition being that the auger housing be horizontal. | 04-23-2015 |
20150107136 | SNOW PLOW - A snow plow includes a control unit for raising an auger housing to a predetermined upper limit angle when travel device is reversing, and an acceleration sensor for detecting acceleration produced in the auger housing. The control unit determines an angle of inclination of the auger housing on the basis of the acceleration. When the travel device starts moving forward after having temporarily moved in reverse, the control unit sets an intermediate lowering target angle of inclination, which is in the lowering path of the auger housing from the upper limit angle to a pre-reversing angle of inclination, in accordance with the forward acceleration; lowers the auger housing at a given lowering speed from the upper limit angle to the intermediate lowering target angle of inclination; and lowers the auger housing at a gradually decreasing lowering speed from the intermediate lowering target angle of inclination to the pre-reversing angle of inclination. | 04-23-2015 |
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20130135659 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING ENERGY SAVING MODE LEARNING FUNCTION AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR - An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information. | 05-30-2013 |
20150098103 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS HAVING ENERGY SAVING MODE LEARNING FUNCTION AND CONTROLLER THEREFOR - An energy saving setting unit controls an image forming apparatus that makes a transition to a power saving state if a transition time passes without any prescribed operation in a normal state, and it includes: a unit for storing specific day information distinguishing a normal operation day and a specific day; an auto pattern updating unit determining the transition time in a normal operation day based on past operational status of the normal operation day of the image forming apparatus; a specific day pattern registering unit receiving and storing setting of the transition time of the specific day; and a switching unit, switching the state of conduction of the image forming apparatus using the transition time determined by the auto pattern updating unit and the stored transition time, on the normal operation day and on the specific day, respectively, based on the specific day information. | 04-09-2015 |
20150116741 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS ALLOWING EASY EDITING OF PREVIEW IMAGES - An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data. | 04-30-2015 |
20150131114 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus has an image display operation device with a function selecting portion to correlate with a plurality of functions executed in the image forming apparatus, a display portion, and a display control portion. The function selecting portion includes a function selecting portion in which selectable function items are displayed in accordance with an operation mode selected in the image forming apparatus. A second function selecting portion display other function items that are simultaneously selected. The display control portion simultaneously displays the function selecting portions on the display portion. The image display operation device simultaneously makes functions selectable. When the functions according to the first function selecting portion is selected, the display control portion changes functions according to the second function selecting portion that is displayed, based on contents of the functions according to the first function selecting portion. | 05-14-2015 |
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20110199628 | DISPLAY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS INCLUDING THE DISPLAY DEVICE, AND METHOD OF DISPLAYING INFORMATION - On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, pieces of information are displayed divided into five areas, that is, a system area , a function selecting area , a preview area , an action panel area and a task trigger area , of which arrangement is kept unchanged even when operational modes are switched. With such an arrangement, the same or similar pieces of information are displayed on an area arranged at the same position even in different operational modes. | 08-18-2011 |
20110199637 | OPERATION CONSOLE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE OPERATION CONSOLE - An operation unit of an image forming apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, allowing accurate and easy input by the user requesting switching of display to a screen image allowing selection of an operation mode, includes: a pilot lamp, a touch-panel display, and hardware keys including a power key, an energy-saving key and a home key. The home key that switches the display on the touch-panel display to an operation mode selecting screen image (home screen image) when pressed is provided closer to the touch-panel display than other hardware buttons. | 08-18-2011 |
20110279848 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS WITH POWER SAVE MODE LEARNING FUNCTION AND METHOD OF MANAGING POWER SAVE MODE IN THE IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes an auto pattern updating unit for determining transition time for transition from a normal conduction state to a power saving state of each time of day based on job logs, and a display processing unit for displaying the determined state of transition of each time of day on a display unit on hour-by-hour basis. The display device may be an external PC for management, or an operation display panel of the image forming apparatus. For the time of day of which transition time cannot be determined, the shortest time period is allocated. The hour-by-hour transition time is displayed in color-coded manner. The automatically determined transition time may be changed by a user operation. | 11-17-2011 |
20120013928 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller for giving display guidance on the input status of image data from the document reader, on the display panel. The display panel includes a first display area and a second display area. The control unit-side controller performs control such as to display a display image in the first display area, move the display image displayed in the first display area toward the second display area, and then display the moved one in the second display area. | 01-19-2012 |
20120072839 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing apparatus includes a display device, a storage device for storing image data, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image of the image data on a display screen. The preview display unit displays a scroll bar as a UI component for scrolling the preview image, on the display screen. When the image is scrolled, the scroll bar is changed to an enlarged scroll bar. On the screen image, a page jump button and a page number are additionally displayed. | 03-22-2012 |
20120079375 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS ALLOWING EASY EDITION OF PREVIEW IMAGES - An image editing apparatus allowing easy edition of page arrangement order on the preview display of page images includes a display device having a display screen and a preview display device configured to display image data in a scrollable manner. If any page is selected from the images of preview display, the selected page is displayed as a reduced image at a position different from the preview images. By drag-and-dropping the reduced image to an arrangement of preview images, the selected page moves to the drag-and-dropped position in the image data. | 03-29-2012 |
20120099128 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes a document reader, a storage for storing image data, an image output unit and a control unit. The control unit includes a display image generator for generating a display image, a display panel and a control unit-side controller having a function of presenting the display image based on the image data input in a preview representation and an output processing function of implementing an output process. As the output processing function, two schemes are provided: a first output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the images are output after displaying the images to be output in a preview representation on a display panel, and a second output scheme wherein, when image data has been input through the input unit, the image is directly output without displaying the image to be output in a preview representation on the display panel. | 04-26-2012 |
20120099130 | IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS - An image forming apparatus is described. Selecting a function desired by a user from among functions provided in the apparatus is provided to improve operability as well as eliminating erroneous copy. In the image forming apparatus, an operation unit includes a display panel for displaying a function selecting portion. An operation unit side control portion, as the function selecting portion, has a first function selecting portion in which selectable function items are displayed corresponding to an operation mode and a second function selecting portion in which other function items which are selectable at the same time. The first function selecting portion and the second function selecting portion are displayed at the same time on the display panel, so that functions of the first function selecting portion and functions of the second function selecting portion are selectable at the same time. | 04-26-2012 |
20140036279 | Image Forming Apparatus - An image forming apparatus includes: a document reading unit | 02-06-2014 |
20150103369 | OPERATION CONSOLE, IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND DISPLAY METHOD - In order to provide an operation console having superior operability and visibility, a touch-panel display includes a display panel displaying a copy mode basic screen image with virtual keys, and a touch-panel receiving an input operation to the virtual keys. On the copy mode basic screen image, a group of virtual ten keys for inputting the number of copies are displayed. When image data is input by a document reading unit, the touch-panel display causes a preview image based on the image data to be displayed with higher priority than the group of virtual ten keys, in the copy mode basic screen image. | 04-16-2015 |
20150215482 | OPERATION CONSOLE, AND ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS PROVIDED WITH THE OPERATION CONSOLE - An operation unit of an image forming apparatus having a plurality of operation modes, allowing accurate and easy input by the user requesting switching of display to a screen image allowing selection of an operation mode, includes: a pilot lamp, a touch-panel display, and hardware keys including a power key, an energy-saving key and a home key. The home key that switches the display on the touch-panel display to an operation mode selecting screen image (home screen image) when pressed is provided closer to the touch-panel display than other hardware buttons. | 07-30-2015 |
20150312429 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS WITH AN IMAGE AREA AND A BUTTON FOR TRANSMISSION OF THE IMAGE - On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, pieces of information are displayed divided into five areas, that is, a system area, a function selecting area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, of which arrangement is kept unchanged even when operational modes are switched. With such an arrangement, the same or similar pieces of information are displayed on an area arranged at the same position even in different operational modes. | 10-29-2015 |
20150326742 | IMAGE EDITING APPARATUS AND IMAGE EDITING METHOD - An image editing apparatus includes a display device, a storage device for storing image data, and a preview display unit for displaying a preview image of the image data on a display screen. The preview display unit displays a scroll bar as a UI component for scrolling the preview image, on the display screen. When the image is scrolled, the scroll bar is changed to an enlarged scroll bar. On the screen image, a page jump button and a page number are additionally displayed. | 11-12-2015 |